Saturday, December 28, 2013

Los Angeles, CA—I just finished watching the film, “12 Years
A Slave.” I found the acting
superb. The cast and crew behind the
film were as good as it gets. As for the
film it was little more than the historical revision of American slavery.

In the film every Black was a hero or victim and every White
(except Brad Pitt’s character) was evil.
Dramatic entertainment license trumps truth every time.

Make no mistake slavery was and will always be a terrible stain
on America’s honor and sensibilities. The film ignored the realities. Africans were kidnapped and sold to slave
traders by other Africans. Jungle
savages were bought here and sold as property.

The enslaved Africans soon embraced American Christianity
and simply became a menial and somewhat willing workforce. When the slaves were freed the vast majority
found themselves in non-union jobs on the same plantations where they were
enslaved. Did anything really
change?

The freed slaves universally had no interest in returning to
Africa. The grandchildren and succeeding
generations of African slaves have since enjoyed opportunities and wealth that they
or their fellow Africans never envisioned.

The evolution of that workforce can be seen today is at fast
food and Wal-Mart. These workers become conditioned
and convinced that this is their place in life and simply adapt. Rather than seek education or more profitable
skills these workers become trapped in their crappy lives sometimes for multiple
generations.

When humans are given absolute power over other humans
unthinkable atrocities always occur. The
rapes, beatings and murders of slaves were reality but thankfully the exception
rather than the rule.

The truth is Southern plantations would have had to operate
as maximum security prisons if the kind of abuse that this Hollywood creation
was commonplace. Rebellion and escape
would have brought productivity and the Southern economy to a standstill if the
plantations were anywhere nearly as miserable as depicted in this film. Productive slaves by necessity were well fed
and humanely treated.

The reality is when you remove humans from their homes and
introduce them into utter dependence they adapt quite well. Those in control
can easily recruit slaves to police and control the others. American slavery and the Nazi Holocaust could
never have succeeded without near total cooperation by those victimized!

After World War Two’s end Jewish people worldwide chanted,
“Never Again!” The suggestion was that
they’d never allow anyone to dominate and abuse them again. That rings so hollow today.

After abolishing slavery we added the 14th
Amendment protecting everyone on American soil with, “Equal Protection Under
Law.” Then we spent the next 200 years watering down and creating exceptions to
the original Bill of Rights. There is little freedom left so the meaning of
Equal Protection today is dubious at best.

Freedom is no longer popular particularly among DemocraticParty voters who are overwhelmingly Black and Jewish.
They redundantly elect politicians that want nothing less than to
eviscerate every protection in the Bill of Rights.

Victimized African’s and Jews accepted their fate and knew
their place in society. They meekly
accepted orders to board various implements of transportation and resettled as
they were told. They did not revolt as long as they were given rules and barely
minimal food. As long as the enslaved
were convinced they could not be beaten, staved or murdered they’d totally
cooperate with their imprisoners.

The best people control tool in this setting is community
punishment for any individual’s supposed transgression. If one person tried to escape or resist
everyone would be denied food or would suffer some form of punishment. That makes slave’s self-policing an easy fact
of life.

The Nazi’s could have never succeeded with their Final
Solution without the thousands of capos who sold out fellow Jews and policed
them for better food and conditions. The
capos were often very bit as if not more evil than the Nazis. When the allies liberated the Nazi
concentration many capos were simply beaten to death by fellow inmates. Too bad the inmates did not kill the capos as
they were given power over fellow prisoners.

If we have not learned from the past we are doomed to repeat
it. What’s past is prologue. Holocausts
have happened since the beginning of the human race and they will continue
until he humans evolve or become extinct.

Evolution seems unlikely.

Man will continue to dominate other men under the guise of
government or social democracy. A simple
clock dictates when there will be good times and bad. After each rebellion things improve until
the victors begin to visit the same tyranny on the population that caused the
last revolution. Never say, “Never
Again!”

We are all conditioned to slavery. Anyone claiming they’re not merely has to
remember their meekly submitting to detention and search by TSA screeners. Of course while we are preparing tax returns
and writing checks to pay for Obama’s “Nanny Government” and his extravagant
vacations slavery does enter our minds.

When our government invents a crisis and tells us to board
the buses to various shelters history says we will all quietly line up and do
as we are told.

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Phoenix, AZ—A while back when I was doing a great deal of
investigative TV news producing there was this KPHO-TV general assignment
reporter I was working with, Eileen Faxas. Faxas was not
your typical cookie cutter reporter. She
stood out with her wild red hair and statuesque showgirl figure from all the
rest. You’ve seen a lot of her in the
1990s on CBS5 news reports.

Faxas was dedicated and disciplined but was too often assigned
to less exciting news stories perhaps because she found ways to make them
interesting. She managed to pick up a
few Emmy Awards along the way. Faxas was
a stickler for using proper English and I soon was surprised to learn she was a
Cuban commanding two languages! One day
Faxes moved on. Frankly this lady did not really belong in TV news but had a
higher and more demanding calling.

Faxas showed up in Miami, FL and put herself out for
theater, commercials and as a singer. I
never envisioned her as a singer, actress and dancer. Faxas developed as a consummate triple threat
performer. Soon Faxas was hitting the
New York and national stage tours in Musical productions like Mama Mia and Cats.

More surprises were found on the Elieen Faxes YouTube
Channel! There you can see lots of her
in action pursuing her obvious dream and making a living! You can subscribe to this channel as see just
what this former newsie has been doing.

TV news prepares performers by getting them used to the
stage and public display. When reports
wind up in films it’s always a cameo role as a reporter. Not Faxas, she finds and creates her new characters
in whatever she’s doing.

TV news has hit the hard times because of cable and the
Internet. I’m really thrilled to see
Eileen having the time of her life bring joy to audiences wherever she
performs.

You can check out just what this multi-talented lady has
been up to on her website:

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Washington, DC—The ultimate Nanny Laws are the drug
prohibitions. Drug laws are intended to
prevent stupid people from harming themselves with nature’s chemicals and
compounds.

The idea was to protect the children. There are better ways to do that than making
the incredibly expensive and un-American police state and the deadly and vast torrent
of crime and violence associated.

First of all the cost of manufacturing the dangerous drugs
that plague our society is really miniscule.
Creating the drugs costs no more that tea, soft drinks or Twinkies. The price of drugs is driven by police
enforcement and the associated risks involved. The risk associated with drug
trafficking is exactly what inflates the profits.

Addicts pay incredible amounts of cash for illicit drugs
simply because they are illegal! The
cost is so high and their addiction is so overpowering in the process we
created a new class of thieves, robbers, burglars and even killers. If drugs were not so expensive most addicts
would not be involved in crime just to raise drug money to feed their habits.

We created another very ugly crime class of corrupt cops,
prosecutors, judges, lawmakers and government contractors that shamelessly exploit
and cash in on the Drug War. They gleefully
pose as, White knights but are the evil villains laughing all the way to the
bank through every form of corruption.

The suggestion that prohibitions stop or even slow down drug
abuse is a sick joke. If anything the
prohibition makes the drugs more attractive.
Human nature tempts people to engage in risky behavior and to take walks
on the wild side. Sky diving and extreme
sports have a similar attraction. No
matter the risk people are only too willing to gamble with their lives.

Drug treatment has been reduced to a scandalous scam. It’s nothing more that a profitable way for
crooks to help convicted drug addicts avoid jail. It’s not about meaningful
treatment. The only way for an addict to
get admitted into a treatment program today is by court order after an arrest
and conviction! That’s beyond
outrageous. It’s not about treatment but
obscene profits.

Parents are misled by the Drug Czars that their children
will all be sticking needles in their arms but for the Drug War. That
propaganda hogwash works to convince parents that they are incapable of raising
their children without government intervention. They become brainwashed into believing that if
they don’t support the Drug War they’re bad parents!

No right-minded parent wants their children tempted by
anything harmful including drugs.
Government is not a third parent for your child! Parents need to be parents. Nobody said being a parent is an easy job.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted on the Drug War
every year. Liberty and freedom has been
compromised to the point of no return.

Taxing illicit drugs is just another way to inflate the
price and invite every form of crime and corruption. Let the FDA regulate only legitimate medicine
and food purity. Illicit drugs don’t
need or deserve regulation. For
recreational drug users it should simply industry regulated and subject to
buyer beware.

Charles Darwin told us long ago that some people were just
not meant to live. Man’s law can’t
change Darwin’s.

If we took a mere ten percent of the cash we waste on the
Drug War and used it to treat the addicted that actually wanted treatment we
could make vast progress against this cancer.

As for children we must protect them by making it a serious
crime to furnish or introduce drugs to them.

There is nothing positive about the Drug War. It has killed more than all of the illicit
drugs combined. The fact is the Drug War
is killing us.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Los Angeles, CA—This screenplay languished in Movie Purgatory
for years before it broke out and was finally turned into a feature film. It’s the biographical story of rodeo cowboy,
electrician and small time hustler Ron Woodroof.

In the early 1980s Woodroof was a homophobic that practiced
unsafe heterosexual relations and abused drugs.
After getting diagnosed with HIV and soon AIDs, he began serious research into the
experimental drug therapies. They were all experimental then,
because drug protocols had not yet been developed to combat this deadly plague.

Because of the incredibly slow action and outright
obstruction of the FDA Woodroof began importing and distributing the
non-narcotic drugs himself. Rather than
sell the drugs he circumvented the law by forming The Dallas Buyers Club and
selling memberships.

Woodroof proved to be e hero to those suffering from HIV and
AIDS along with their loved ones. Of
course tens of thousands of hemophiliacs were infected by tainted blood despite
not engaging in risky behavior.

Matthew McConaughey gave a commanding performance as
Woodroof. He deliberately lost 30
pounds to fit the role of an emaciated AIDs victim. Actor Jared Leto was incredible as an
infected and drug-addicted transgender that won Woodroof’s respect as a fellow
soldier in the fight of the deadly disease. Actress Jennifer Garner shines in her role as a frustrated physician and fellow AIDs warrior.

Jean-Marc Vall’ee directed this cinematic masterpiece. Go see this film, it’s well worth the price
of admission.

Monday, December 23, 2013

Washington, DC—Our economy was once sound and people were
working. After decades of expanded
entitlements and extortionate taxation American productivity is at a
standstill. They can claim unemployment is down but the number of Americans on
food stamps is up, way up.

As long as the boot of government is on the neck of every
employer in the land there cannot be relief.
Jobs outside of government meaningless jobs programs like the TSA and
the Obamacare bureaucracy are dead like Dillinger. Without meaningful employment, health insurance is unobtainable. Obamacre is a lot of things but free or affordable is not one of them.

Medical professionals are nearly universal in their disdain
for a government cure far worse than the disease. Government officials and
politicians want Obamacare for anyone but themselves. Even the Leftist unions that led the way with
supportive propaganda has dodged Obamacare at every opportunity.

When the very officials forcing this bitter Obamacare pill
down our throats wouldn’t dare push the poison on their own families and selves
how could any American accept this crap in good faith? WTF is wrong that Americans have not stormed
the Whitehouse and purged these despots? How is Obamacare any better then the
Kool-Aid of the Socialist Utopia of Jonestown?
Americans need what they don’t have, spines!

The Obama Administration has this dying monster on life
support until after the 2014 elections. The mainstream media Obama lapdogs have been
sidestepping reality at every opportunity pretending along as the abandon any
minimal effort at real journalism.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

Chicago, IL—The biggest lie ever told was that, all men are
created equal. That may have been the
first recorded politically correct statement.
It was simply designed to make anyone who felt inadequate feel better
about being shortchanged by life. It
only served to strengthen the fact that someone is indeed inadequate!

When you think about it some folks are always taller, stronger,
faster, smarter, wealthier, healthier and more attractive. We all have our strong points and weaknesses. Life is not fair, not by a long shot.

We humans are not clones but come in all shapes, sizes and
colors with educations, sexual proclivities and cultures that are widely
diverse. Humans are drawn to different
faiths and subscribe to them with different levels allegiance. Most of this is determined at birth.

We all have a stereotype and some of us seem stranger to
each other or even comical. That’s not
hate, ill will or some evil manifestation, its reality.

When religions and cultures clash it can get
really ugly. We need to find ways to voluntarily accept our differences rather
than to be forced into tolerance.
Coercion, threats, punishment and hatred over our most basic differences
serves only to further divide the human race.

In America’s past, children would call each other names to
thoughtlessly demean each other. If you
became a victim of this behavior you’d go running home crying to an understanding
mother. She’d tell you that sticks and stones rhyme. Hurt feelings were just not the same as
broken bones. The children would soon
get back into the mix and become fast friends forgetting those differences
entirely.

Today in America if someone has a beer too many and
publishes an ill-advised tweet that offends someone sensibilities, it becomes a
hate milestone. It’s treated like a
major crime and can mobilize millions into absolute frenzy. The misdeed becomes so blown out of
proportion that jobs are lost and lives become threatened. How is this anyway productive? Every hypersensitive over-reaction invites
more division and hatred always becomes the victor.

The recent Duck Dynasty silliness has pitted free speech and
religion against the shrill screaming of some but not all in the Gay community. Why can’t some Gays accept that most
religions of the world view that lifestyle as sinful?

We really have no right to inspect each other’s bedrooms so
why does that matter? I consider sexual
preference something that’s programed into our DNA. If most Humans were born Gay we as a species
would not have survived. Does that make
it wrong? I just don’t see a reason that
deserves any of my concern.

Whether we know it or not we all have Gay friends. Friends are those we will fight for and
help. I need all the friends I can
get. Sharing and kindness is what
friendship is all about.

Any human that is kind to me qualifies to be my friend. Intolerance and insensitive remarks should be
avoided but they will always happen.
Instead of throwing gasoline on such fires that is the very best time to
spread good will, forgiveness and kindness with the offender.

Political correctness is nothing less than a meaningless
effort that cannot succeed. Being a
politically correct bigot does not make anyone superior to a Nazi or KKK
member. We can celebrate our differences
and still learn to laugh with each other rather than at each other. Political correctness is nothing less than a bar to genuine
brotherly love.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Los Angeles, CA—Police training has taken a fascist turn
here along with our political leadership.
One only has to look at the prison population to understand we are in a
police state growing by the second into something no rational human beings will
want.

Police work is sometimes dangerous. Criminals despite laws and every kind of gun
ban still rape rob and murder. We insist
of maintaining the miserably failed Drug War keeping illicit profits and
government corruption at an all time high. Our liberty and freedom has been at an all
time low as a direct result.

We’ve turned street cops into urban commandos raiding homes
(many by mistake) at all hours. The
result is far more dangerous than the outlawed drugs themselves.

We want our cops alive and train them to take no
chances. The hero cop is really an
endangered species.

I was trained differently.
We had no ballistic vests and carried six-shot service revolvers as we
worked the mean streets of Chicago. We
understood two things; deadly force was to be a last resort and to weigh the
moral consequences of any deadly force used.

We were taught that mental illness often brought on people’s
violent reactions and that we need to be as humane as possible. Bringing suspects to justice alive was the
goal. Bringing them in dead was always considered
a serious failure.

Frankly the average Chicago cop in a busy district could
kill as many as 12 suspects a year with complete justification. Instead cops looked for every reason not to
pull the trigger. Of course
where there was no option whatsoever bullets must fly.

In the early 1970s then, New York City Police Detective and
psychologist Harvey Schlossberg became the father of modern police hostage
negotiation in American police work. His
efforts saved countless lives of cops, hostages and suspects. The result was his hostage negotiation training that really
exemplified the sanctity of human life.
The negotiator that had the fewest injuries or fatalities on his watch
won.

Now cops are armed to the teeth with heavier weapons and are
protected with military armor and vehicles.
The negotiations end once there is a clear shot, all in the name of
officer safety. Schlossberg’s model has
been for the most part replaced with military rules of engagement. Modern military training that so many vets
have has changed the direction of police agencies to quicker use of deadly
force at every level.

Something has gone wrong here. I see no turning back to the days of police
heroes like former Chicago Police Superintendent James Rochford. Rochford brought in mentally deranged war
vet, Frank Kulak alive after he used bombs and guns killing both civilians and
cops. Rochford used his own skill and
bravery beyond the call of duty as a negotiator to successfully end this prolonged siege.

Today, Frank Kulak would have been taken out like the Waco,
TX Branch Davidians were with firebombs and helicopters under scorched earth
rules of engagement.

If you never owned a dog your life has been incomplete. Owning a dog is not difficult or burdensome. The only bar to dog ownership are serious allergies,
landlord prohibitions or you’re gone away from home for long periods of
time.

Today there are a surprising number of dog friendly
employers that allow pets to be brought to work. I’ve even seen this at locally owned TV
stations. I think many companies are
learning that being dog friendly is actually good for business, productivity
and certainly employee morale.

Dogs are a tremendous cure for depression and walking them
insures you get more exercise and perhaps a longer life.

Dogs are also wonderful matchmakers for their unattached owners! Dogs make it a lot easier for members of the
opposite sex to approach each other on the street. Egos always interfere with our first meetings
but when a dog is present ego problems seem to simply vanish.

A dog will bring a smile a minute to your face and that
translates to improving your appearance and personality. Dogs are fun, funny and lovable. There are no
bad dogs, just bad owners.

A dog will always help you through a crisis, heartbreak or
even a bad day. Their loyalty to you is never
in question. They sense when you’re sad
or lonely and will give you the special attention you need. The money spent on
food and veterinary healthcare will bring you priceless joy in return.

I’ve seen good relationships and marriages saved simply because
laughter is returned to a house house with the introduction of a new dog. When laughter leaves a home that is a sign
that divorce may not be far away.

Housebreaking and training your dog is easy. The dog will be training you at the same
time! Instructions don’t come with a dog
but pet stores have lots of books and the Internet is filled with lots of
helpful information.

Shelters always have an abundance of dogs of every kind and
size that are in desperate need of adoption.
The truth is that they adopt us asking for only love, kindness and some
food in return.

The only downside is that their lives are too short. But
when they pass on there is always another doggie that needs you as much as you
needed the loyal friend that just crossed that Rainbow Bridge.

If you believe in Heaven and it’s reward you will see every
critter you ever loved there or it would not be heaven.

The last thing I will say is that dogs will bring out your
best behavior. When I was a cop
arresting people, I always asked they if the had a dog when I was booking
them. I did this to make sure that the
dog was not locked up in some dwelling without food and water. I would help the arrestee notify friends and
relatives to avoid a tragedy. What I
learned doing that was surprising.
Virtually none of the people I arrested owned dogs!

Perhaps it’s true that the Devil’s work is done with idle
hands. Dogs will keep their owners busy
loving them and that seems to prevent and incredible amount of anti-social
behavior.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Los Angeles, CA—What to you call a sinking boatload of TSA
bureaucrats and screeners? It’s an
excellent beginning! Do I absolutely
abhor the TSA? That’s an understatement
at best. When I see them in their quasi
police costumes I always view them as nasty Nazis. They are simple minded, poorly trained goons
that lack minimal tolerance for anyone or anything. Too many of them are
thieves stealing valuable passenger’s property every day.

Factually, the TSA’s totally tyrannical mission is a
violation of travelers Civil Rights under the Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution. The courts have wrongly
held that travelers “voluntarily submit” to the searching and that somehow
justifies the privacy invasion and seizures of property.

I say there is nothing voluntary about most people traveling
by commercial airlines. Americans must
travel in order to earn money to feed themselves and families. There really is no alternative. Millions of people do avoid flying whenever
they can because of this government tyranny and I’m one of them.

I’d rather drive up to eight hours each way on highways to
avoid the indignity of being X-Rayed, fondled and frisked by these low rent TSA
thugs.

My biggest beef with the TSA is the 1,700 times a year or
more that they cause the wrongful arrest people that simply forgot they had
legal handguns in their carry on bags.

Before you say these forgetful people are stupid or criminal
consider the millions of dollars of lotions and potions seized from passengers
that forgot they had their expensive liquid cosmetics in carry on bags.

We all forget especially when we must fly at the last minute
and become preoccupied with serious business or personal matters like traveling
because of the deaths of loved ones. We are humans and humans forget.

We place our bags on the conveyer belts knowing they will be
X-Rayed and inspected. Nobody would
knowingly leave any item in such a bag that would cause distress to fellow
passengers or anyone, especially themselves!

Often our bags are shared with or packed by our close family
members increasing the likelihood that a gun could be left in some carry on
bag.

When the TSA discovers a gun they contact police who are
forced to arrest, the poor forgetful soul and what follows is never
pretty. They confiscate the gun that can
easily cost upwards of $1,100.00 and then the arrestee is fingerprinted,
photographed and jailed until they see a judge and post bail. They must then hire a lawyer that can cost
$10,000 or more. If they have a business
license that face more trouble after they are placed on probation or pay
fines. The criminal record in most
jurisdictions is forever. All for just
being forgetful!

The late actor and retired police detective Dennis Farina
was handcuffed and jailed on a Sunday for over eight hours until he could
gather $35,000 in cash for bail with the banks being closed! His record was eventually expunged but he was
treated like a common criminal that had committed some dreadful offense.

Celebrity chef
Paul Prudhomme, NBA legend Bill Russell, actor
Christian Slater and the wife of Rocker Ted Nugent, Shemane Nugent just to name a few more victims were all arrested
and manhandled because of the outrageous TSA Zero Tolerance policy.

TSA
head, John Pistole (no pun intended) recently conceded to ABC News that people
arrested with guns in carry-on luggage are not terrorists or people trying to
do harm. He went on to say that, “ It’s
just a matter of people not thinking about what they’re carrying… These are
people who have simply forgotten and go through security checks and realize
their mistakes.”

If
the TSA is well aware that there is no criminal intent than why don’t they
simply ask the passengers to remove the guns and place them in checked baggage
the proper way? Why subject the forgetful passenger to the horror of jail and
criminal prosecution?Why waste so much
taxpayer money on this tyranny?

Should
a few guns turn out to be stolen, have obliterated serial numbers or are being
carried by felons, that is an entirely different matter.Arrests under those circumstances are good
public policy.

In
short if the TSA could show simple reasonableness and respect I would not want
to see them all on a sinking boat.They
must realize their mission is to protect passengers from actual
terrorists.Instead the TSA itself has
become a terrorist organization.If they
ever expect to gain my tolerance and respect they must first learn that
forgetful passengers are not America’s enemies.

Monday, December 16, 2013

Washington, DC--U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon
ruled today that the government NSA domestic telephone spying program was a
violation of our rights under the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

On June 5, 2013, UK publication, The Guardiandropped the Edward Snowden bombshell that our NSA and
various telecommunication companies had a domestic spy program in place
collecting our telephone conversations and other data. This was without the pre-requisite search
warrants or even minimal probable cause.

Government snoops can simply access any of our past calls
and listen in at will!

The group Judicial Watch and others, including Larry Klayman
filed suit against Barack Obama in the D.C. U.S. District Court seeking an
injunction halting the outlaw behavior.

The Obama Administration claimed this lawless program was necessary to
thwart terrorism but the government could not cite a single event where a
terrorist act was interrupted because of the program.

Snowden told anyone who’d listen that this was really for
gathering intelligence information against political enemies and others targeted
by the Obama Administration. Discovery and abuse of any illicit sexual or criminal
activity by would definitely be used nefariously to sway Congressional votes, judicial decisions and
control those who may or may not run for public office. Could this be the cause of Supreme Court
Justice John Roberts to make a surprise ruling on Obamacare?

We now have government by extortion and blackmail. Imagine the shameful FBI COINTELPRO program
today with this advanced technology!
This is COINTELPRO on steroids!

This phone snooping program was and is Orwellian and criminal. Anyone connected to this should be tried as
common criminals. Disgraced former Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano has been rotting in prison for the same
behavior for nearly a decade and it will be several more years before he will
be considered for release.

Our politicians and bureaucrats have no special legal
immunity and those involved should be brought to justice for their crimes
regardless of political party affiliation.

Judge Leon found the program was a violation of American’s
rights and issued an injunction but stayed it subject to appeal. This should set the stage for the Impeachment
of Barack Obama and criminal prosecution for all of those involved.

Our freedom is much safer tonight because of Edward Snowden
who left a lucrative job, risked his freedom and life exposing this
tyranny. We owe Snowden a lot for what
he did. To suggest that lives were
jeopardized by Snowden’s leaks is outrageous. Every American is endangered by the Obama Administration's criminal conduct.

Our job as American citizens is to now take whatever action
is necessary to take charge of or nation and bring these political and
government thugs to justice. It may well
take more than lip service but the force our founders gave us the right to use
under the Second Amendment. Edward Snowden is deserving of our nations highest
award for bravery.

Sunday, December 08, 2013

Earth—This planet we inhabit is quickly getting
incredibly smaller. We travel where we
please easier than ever despite the thieves and thugs of the TSA. When we can’t travel we make wonderful free video calls
to our friends even internationally via Skype.com and can send e-mail.

I’m blessed with incredibly
wonderful friends here in the USA, Europe and even India.
All of my friendships are threatened simply because because life itself is fragile. Many of my friends have left me for the
hereafter. Many died way too young.

I’m in reasonably good health
despite the reality that time is marching and I can’t reverse the aging
process.

I’ve been both blessed and
cursed with more excitement in my life than most people will ever see. Surviving a life changing shooting in 1987
and a career that brought me face to face with horrible violence, injustice,
tyranny and some really wonderful experiences. I'm by nature an

adrenalin Junkie. I must always be where the action is.

I have had to come to grips
with my taking the wrong career direction as a young man. After my stint as an Army medical corpsman I
should have tackled medical school and not surrendered to a fear of advanced
mathematics. I had no parents to help
me overcome the difficult financial issues associated with that kind of an education.

Life has thrown me some curve
balls and fortunately I’ve not yet struck out.
I’m still carefully watching the ball.

I do regret returning to the USA
to live after my incredible military obligation and love for life in Germany. Those 18 months in Europe were truly the best times of
my life. I learned about kindness, art,
music, and some incredibly elegant women.

The United States has deteriorated dramatically. People are only knowledgeable about inane pop culture crap, video games and reality TV. Kindness here has all but disappeared, being replaced with suspicion, divisiveness and even hate. As for elegance one need only check out the customers shopping at any local WalMart. I can remember when people dressed up to go see a movie but not anymore.

My politics all but make me
an anarchist. I’m not fond of the heavy
hand of government. I’ve always resented
authority and particularly those laws or regulations designed to protect me from
myself. I’m unhappy to see more and more
of our hard won freedom stolen by politicians.

We've replaced freedom with abject fascism.

I don’t know what adventures
or romances lay ahead for me. Everyday
is a new day and I must only look forward.
There is no going backward. We
don’t get to relive our lives and correct our mistakes.

All I know is that without my
friends my life would be worthless and unbearable. For all of those wonderful people that have been kind
to me or befriended me I have two words, thank you.

Friday, December 06, 2013

New York, NY—NBC put on two
projects, the making of this project and then a week later the live play.

This was a classic film with
Christopher Plummer and JulieAndrews.It was based on a great World War Two inspired story of the von Trapp
family.

Okay I much preferred the
show about making the show better than the show itself.

The first problem was
ridicules miscasting of the talented singer Audra McDonald as Mother Abbess.It was beyond dopy to cast an
African-American woman as the Austrian Catholic Mother Superior.Was this some sick idea of political
correctness?This was distracting to say
the least.

Carrie Underwood was
wonderful as was Stephen Moyer.Underwood is a versatile performer. The cameras all loved her and she delivered. This despite her pure American persona rather than being a European like the real deal.

The Children were adorable
and I can only imagine how their parents were on Cloud 9 beaming with pride.I’m sure many of them bought the latest and
greatest big screen TV to watch their kids in this event.

The great story and music carried
this project even though it was somewhat awkward and stagy.Parts of the show were reminiscent of bad community
theater productions.

The real test was how many
people including those tweeting criticisms those did not change the
channel.We all watched and no matter
what were touched by parts of this production.

Audra McDonald has a great
singing voice but seemed to lack needed acting chops.It was like she knew that she just did not fit
into this story.I can’t blame McDonald
for crappy casting.I’d like to hope
that African-Americans would not have been offended by not seeing their own in
this production.

Should NBC continue with this
kind of programing?Certainly, but I
hope they learn from mistakes.Anything
beats the reality crap that plays to the lowest common denominator of the
typical low brow American audience. The Cast: